Salem

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Dear Humanity, We Regret being alien bastards We Regret coming to Super Earth And we most definitely Regret the Helldivers just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet

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After the Purge, you find yourself struggling with the Dark Side. The only coping mechanism the Jedi taught you was suppression, but after losing everyone you've ever known, you just can't get all those bad feelings in the bottle anymore. There's an ancient Jedi meditation, largely considered risky, which allows you to directly confront and fight your Dark Side in like a Battle Within the Mind sort of thing. If you win, you conquer your own darkness, and if you lose it takes over, which is why Jedi never do it unless the darkness is already threatening to take over. Out of desperation you decide to try this meditation. Sure, you risk falling to the Dark Side, but if there's a chance of getting rid of all this pain you feel, it's worth a try. You steel your nerves and prepare to be assaulted by some savage manifestations of your inner demons. And instead, you find a little girl, sobbing in a ball on the ground.

There is no fight to be had. You either kill her, let her out, or leave her there. She's supposed to be your darkest impulses, right? So why does she seem so… vulnerable? You came here to destroy that part of yourself, didn't you? But… how could you? You can't just leave her here either, that would accomplish nothing, you'd end up back where you started. But… letting her lose? She's your darkness. That would be the worst thing you could do… surely. This isn't what you expected. Maybe you should put down your lightsaber and just try… comforting her? She won't let you get close. When you try, she lashes out and keeps her distance. But you're a Jedi, so you decide to exercise patience. And slowly you come to understand her. She's angry and she's afraid, yes, but she's right to be. Because every pain and every trauma you've experienced, you pushed that onto her. She's been suffering all the things you couldn't deal with. Or, well… that's not right, is it? She's not some separate entity from you. She is you. The parts of yourself you never wanted to accept. The parts the Jedi would never let you accept. How could you do this to yourself?

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Listen, I'm sure Boromir was like… a great guy or whatever when he wasn't under the influence of the Ring. But maybe, just maybe, if you're giving into the temptation of the Ring to the point of reaching to take it within less than a minute in its presence, and seriously suggesting to the Council of Let's Destroy the Ring that no actually the Evil Ring of Corruption is a good thing and we should totally use it… that should probably disqualify you from the Fellowship of Being Around the Ring For Months Until we can Destroy it.

[curiositysavesthecat]

Intuition test, vote the word you think has THE MOST votes — You can say whether you got it right or not, but please DO NOT spoil the results/DO NOT say which one has the most votes

Rain

Pierrot

Crystal

Autopsy

Serpent

Four

Ritual

Doom

Pirate

Gun

Sonne

Ocean

Voting ended onDec 7, 2024

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Confirmed: Aldebaran has a head, hair, and at least two eyes.

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An announcement rings through the city of Priestella

Hello hello? Is this thing on?

Ahem. This is a public service announcement for the Witch Cult bastards who think they can just do whatever they want with this city. You don't stand a chance.

Sirius Romanee-Conti, you believe that you can tear the people of this city apart by using your authority of Wrath to amplify their unrest. But you're dead wrong. Ordinary people are strong; far stronger than you give them credit for. Especially in crises. Not a single one of them is going to fall for it.

Lye Batenkaitos, or Roy or Rui or whatever. I don't know if you're lying about your name or if there's more than one of you. It doesn't matter. You are my friend's name and put her in a coma. No tricks you can pull are going to stop me from cutting you open to get her back.

Capella Emerada Lugunica, you're a real monster. The things you've done to these people are unforgivable. By the time I'm done with you, you're going to be grovelling at my feet begging for death. Only after you've returned everyone to normal, will I grant you that.

Regulus Corneas, I bet you consider yourself untouchable, undeatable, unstoppable. But here's the thing: I am Emilia's knight. And if you intend to stand between me and her, I'm going to blow you away.

My name is Subaru Natsuki. I'm the guy who killed the White Whale. I'm the guy who killed Betelgeuse Romanee-Conti. I'm the guy who killed the Great Rabbit. And guess who's next?

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Julius is berating Subaru and hitting him again and again with his sword. A fitting punishment for the self-proclaimed knight's display at the royal selection meeting. He keeps getting back up, only to get knocked down again. Some might call that tenacity. Julius would call it reckless arrogance. The kind of stubborn pride and refusal to acknowledge one's own limits that needed to be beaten out of new knights so that humility and discipline could take their place.

In one swift motion, Julius whacks Subaru's hand to get him to drop the sword again, slams him in the gut to wind him, and hooks his leg to turn his foolish charge into a painful faceplant and tumble, leaving the boy sprawled on his back. But in that last slide, his shirt ends up getting lifted up slightly. And as he struggles back to his feet, Julius catches a glimpse of something he hadn't expected on one as reckless as Subaru: battle scars.

The long gash across his stomach is incredibly thin, meaning the blade must have been razor sharp and wielded by a master. And the innumerable gnarly bite marks all around his torso, a knight of Julius's caliber immediately recognizes as wolgarm bites. This boy, weak as he may be, has faced down fearsome mabeasts and a skilled user of a blade, both of which should have killed him dead. And yet here he is, struggling back to his feet against yet another opponent he can't hope to beat and lunging for that sword. Reckless arrogance, to be sure. But perhaps there's some real tenacity in there somewhere, too.

Julius binds the sword and twists, flinging Subaru's weapon away, plants his foot against his chest, and firmly but harmlessly pushes him back, resulting in the boy falling on his ass. "We're done here," Julius says as he drops his own wooden sword and walks away. Subaru, in his immense ignorance, doesn't know that he's just been spared, let alone why.

[salems-hyperfixations]

I think Ranma 1/2's biggest issue is misogyny. It sort of pushes gender boundaries by virtue of the main character's gimmick, but it still treats women like prizes to be won rather than people capable of making their own decisions. The show has plenty of fights over girls and it always resolves them by having Ranma win, but it never takes a step back to ask whether winning the fight actually means winning the girl.

And it almost never lets Akane fight for herself. Sure it shows that she's a capable fighter. But for all the battles that matter, it's either Ranma, or her and Ranma. Even when he's a girl, Ranma is the man stepping in to protect his woman. She isn't allowed to protect herself.

Maybe this changes sometime after where I dropped the show, but the way it was going I doubt that. It's very much a product of the 1980's and the modern remake doesn't seem interested in updating those views.

[calamitygirl3]

Do you think that Rimuru kind of shuts down whenever someone swings a small knife-like object at them which leads to an auto-activation of Raphael taking control until it is dealt with.

I love my traumatized little slime

[ronworkman]

Shark Culling Laws Poster

Designed by Matteo Musci

[ravenworks-deactivated20210719]

that is a great-ass design

[hisnamewasbeanni]

EXCELLENT design for an EXCELLENT message

[kawaiiiuniverssse]

I can’t not reblog this

[st-pam]

[thememedaddy]

[inbabylontheywept]

This is what I mean when I say that recreationally lying to kids is an important family tradition.

[nopostradio]

An old boss of mine was in the Navy, and as always they haze the new guy. Told him to go get a bucket of checkered paint from the quartermaster (I think it was; any mistakes in nomenclature are mine, not his).

The QM, tired of the nonsense, actually made one. He put a grid of cardboard in a bucket and carefully filled it with alternating paints, then removed the grid, leaving a bucket of black and white checkered paint.

[inbabylontheywept]

I feel like if you come back with a bucket of checked paint, you should immediately be promoted to general. That takes moxie.

[rhysintherain]

My mentor in the garage had a shop kid who was especially keen before I started working there. Guy was dumb as a rock, but just so enthusiastic.

One of our usual pranks on the new kid was to send them out for something that didn't exist. So one day things are slow and R sends him to our usual parts store for left-handed wheel nuts.

Kid comes back several hours later, and goes 'boss, I got your wheel nuts! I had to look all over town, but here they are!"

And sure enough, he's got left-handed thread nuts.

Turns out, some equipment does have different directionally threaded nuts for each side of the vehicle. It's rare outside of very high-end cars, and definitely not the sort of cars we saw in a little prairie town.

Somehow this guy found the only set of left-handed wheel nuts in town and brought them back. It wasn't the last prank we pulled on shop kids, but damn did he make a point.

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Elbow grease... How stupid do they think I am? Once I get back to base with that headlight fluid, I'm gonna talk to the Sergeant.

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Trill: "Please refer to me using they/them" Human: "You're non-binary?" Trill: "No, it's because I'm multiple people."

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Listen up! When I joined the Helldivers, we didn't have any fancy-schmancy stratagems. We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole squad! And we had to share the rock! Buck up, boy! You're one very lucky Helldiver!

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you hold out a holy cross at the vampire but instead of being repelled they just do a handstand so now its a satanic inverted cross from their perspective